Technical Data

History

The former Yugoslav destroyer Dubrovnik
was first captured by Italy in April 1941 and put into Italian service as Premude
. After the Italian capitulation, the ship was taken over by the Kriegsmarine in Genoa on 09.09.1943. It was first thought to rebuild it as a night fighter command ship, replacing the Italian 13,5 cm guns with three German 10,5 cm and installing a Freya Funkmeßgerät (Radar). On 18.06.1944 it was decided to use the ship as a torpedo boat again and it was commissioned as TA32
on 18.08.1944. As part of the 10th torpedo boat flotilla, it was used in an mine laying operation on 18.03.1945 where it engaged the British destroyers Meteor
and Lookout
, which sunk the other German torpedo boats in this operation, TA24
and TA29
. on 24.04.1945, TA32
was blown up by its own crew in Genoa harbor.